So - last night I had the night off of work. My "plan" was to head to the gym, rent a movie and absorb the "me time" that was available. All the roommates gone. Beautiful evening with a perfect sunset on the lagoon. The start to a beautiful evening.
-BUT- I got to the gym, could not find a parking spot ANYWHERE (not even a mile down the street). The gym then sounded like a really bad idea. I decided to scratch that and workout harder this morning (which yes, I did - no cheating for me!). So then I was about to head home when I heard from a friend down in PB to come eat our homemade lasagna we made two nights prior and watch the Season Premiere of Tosh.O [an epic show about Tosh - this dude - making fun of hilarious YouTube Videos]. Yep, that seemed tempting and at this point I just wanted to chill with someone - so I head my way down to PB [which mind you, is about 30 minutes from Carlsbad].
I'm so anxious to go eat, I see the Garnet/Balboa exit, blinker over to the right lane... thinking to myself, "almost there!" Just when things couldn't get any better, they got worse. The car in front of me slams on their breaks, which causes me to put the pedal to the metal and hit my breaks. I look in my rearview mirror and think, "uh oh. this car is going to nail me." CRASHHHHH!!!!!!!! Luckily, I gave myself enough room in front of me that I didn't collide into the Camry in front of me (thanks drivers ed teacher DAD!) I crawl over my seat and hop out the passenger side door - mind you, we're on the busy, rush hour highway. I start getting all of the information you usually get from a person who just smashed into you and juuust when I didn't think things could get any worse.
......a lady comes and clips my driver side mirror!!! AHHHHHHHHHHH. I was like "are you joking me?!!??!!?" So - not only do I have to worry about one report from the cop - I now have to have 2 police reports.
the cop gets to the scene, thinks we're crazy for blocking traffic - dude, in wisco we have to stay right where the accident happened otherwise we get yelled at! So - that's what I did.lol But nope, in California, you have to get off the highway and go on some random street to not block the main traffic. Makes sense...
We pull over on some side street off of the highway - all 3 vehicles, plus a motorcycle cop. The officer talks to the guy who hit me, collects his information and lets him leave. Then he comes to me and asks what happened - so I tell him. When I told him that the girl clipped me when I was parked and out of my car, he BUSTED OUT LAUGHING saying, "wait!?!? She clipped you when you were parked and weren't in the car?!?" "Yes, officer." I had a very hard time holding back from laughing - so we kinda chuckled together. He then tells me that I'll be in 2 separate reports. He then asks me to come look at the damage done to my car. I get out of my car, we get in the reflection of my headlights, he looks at my feet and BUSTS OUT LAUGHING AGAIN. Yes guys - I had my five fingers on - the officer thought that was pretty comical.
Bet I made that officers night. Certainly didn't make his night with all of the paperwork he's going to have, but totally made him laugh. He said he had had a long night.
SOOOOOOOOO, remember that even when something bad happens, you just being there can turn the situation around. Seeing as how I shouldn't have to pay for anything, I was happy leaving that accident, making a police officers long evening - as I drove away with a back bumper shifted up and ready to fall off - and a mirror that needs some fixin'.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Thursday, December 30, 2010
new year UPDATE.
Wow. Has my life changed a LOT in the past 2 1/2 months.
For one--- as of today, I'm an official condo renter. First time EVER!! Yep, I move into the condo on the Carlsbad lagoon bright and early tomorrow morning! No more house or apartment hopping. I will have my OWN bed and living space with 3 kicka$$ people - Virginia, Sarah & Matt. The only downfall...rent every month? Iiiick. But it will be sooooo worth it. Attached is a picture of our patio, firepit & dock :)
Second of all, seeing as how I've planted a root in a living location, I am finally apart of a new gym! 24 hour fitness has great locations all over southern california and I'm so StoKed to get back to pumping the iron and working my way towards training for a full marathon.
Third of all, I am officially now a FULL TIME EMPLOYEE of LIQUID FORCE WAKEBOARDING. BOOWEM. I first became temporarily hired while one of our Customer Service reps blew out his back and is on disability leave. About a week and a half later, while I was on my way from Vail to Denver to fly home to Geebs, the VP of Sales gave me a ring, offereing me a full time position with Liquid Force saying they wanted me to be apart of their team full time. SCOREEEEE!!!! So today was my first day back on the job from a nice, lengthy Christmas vacation home & I'm learning the computer system where we enter dealer orders in. I'll still be doing social networking and marketing, along with sprayin' a little graphic design into my free time but for the most part, while Zimm is out, I'll be focusing on Customer Service and learning the industry. Everyone has to start somewhere right?!
So---from the looks of things, I'm growing some roots in Cali and am here to stay for a while. I'm still planning on working at D Street for a while, good money and great people! We'll see where life and the new year takes me! So excited for this independent chapter in my life! Life truly does begin at the end of your comfort zone. Go do something that seems out-of-the-ordinary or scary and unheard of...you'll never know how God may surprise you or bless you :)
Second of all, seeing as how I've planted a root in a living location, I am finally apart of a new gym! 24 hour fitness has great locations all over southern california and I'm so StoKed to get back to pumping the iron and working my way towards training for a full marathon.
Third of all, I am officially now a FULL TIME EMPLOYEE of LIQUID FORCE WAKEBOARDING. BOOWEM. I first became temporarily hired while one of our Customer Service reps blew out his back and is on disability leave. About a week and a half later, while I was on my way from Vail to Denver to fly home to Geebs, the VP of Sales gave me a ring, offereing me a full time position with Liquid Force saying they wanted me to be apart of their team full time. SCOREEEEE!!!! So today was my first day back on the job from a nice, lengthy Christmas vacation home & I'm learning the computer system where we enter dealer orders in. I'll still be doing social networking and marketing, along with sprayin' a little graphic design into my free time but for the most part, while Zimm is out, I'll be focusing on Customer Service and learning the industry. Everyone has to start somewhere right?!
ski patrol REsCue.
Vail, CO - DAY 1
December 18, 2010
The morning started off with an egg sandwich and Drew, Amy, Wes & I gearin' up for the 11,570 feet slopes of Vail. A few hours of the Back Bowl and we headed in for lunch. Now, what we thought would be a short, 2 hour post-lunch quick mountain ski, turned into a scary ending. Amy and I sent the boys out to do their own thing, while we did ours - they weren't into terrorizing the double black diamonds that were closed off and being B/A like us. We studied the trail map on the way up 'perfecting a plan' to stay towards the right of the mountain, closest to Vail Cascade...Well, let's just say that when we got up to the mountain and headed down our planned trail, we saw a few black diamonds that weren't closed off and got a little lost.
Black diamond to black diamond led us to either going up hill to the left or up hill to the right - our only downhill choice was two double black diamonds:::that may have been closed off? We can't remember. And umm...closed off for good reason, possibly. Funny enough, the trail was named "BEEN THERE, DONE THAT". ha. Amy led, acting like she knew where she was going and we finally hit a point where there was nowhere to go and all we heard was water. We saw a chair lift to our left, but it was wayyyy too far away. And we saw a run to our right, but that was also far away and we'd have to cross the creek. Not to mention, it was 3:45 PM, the lifts and the mountain closes at 4:30 and that's just about the time it gets dark out too. NOT GOOD.
Thank goodness I had my cell phone. Ski Patrol needed to be notified and come find us. We waited for them for about a half hour - 2 guys and 1 girl followed our tracks from the directions we told them. It was a scary ride out of there. It was getting dark, we were riding along a ledge where there was a creek below us and we got to a point where we had to get some speed and hop the creek. Creek hoppin' & ski boot climbin' led us onto the main trail.
We could've gotten arrested or a huge fine, but the ski patrol was very generous and saved our butts from some tickets and only ended up rackin' up a little bar tab at VENDETTA'S (a local ski patrol hang out). The end of the night turned into history......
December 18, 2010
The morning started off with an egg sandwich and Drew, Amy, Wes & I gearin' up for the 11,570 feet slopes of Vail. A few hours of the Back Bowl and we headed in for lunch. Now, what we thought would be a short, 2 hour post-lunch quick mountain ski, turned into a scary ending. Amy and I sent the boys out to do their own thing, while we did ours - they weren't into terrorizing the double black diamonds that were closed off and being B/A like us. We studied the trail map on the way up 'perfecting a plan' to stay towards the right of the mountain, closest to Vail Cascade...Well, let's just say that when we got up to the mountain and headed down our planned trail, we saw a few black diamonds that weren't closed off and got a little lost.
Black diamond to black diamond led us to either going up hill to the left or up hill to the right - our only downhill choice was two double black diamonds:::that may have been closed off? We can't remember. And umm...closed off for good reason, possibly. Funny enough, the trail was named "BEEN THERE, DONE THAT". ha. Amy led, acting like she knew where she was going and we finally hit a point where there was nowhere to go and all we heard was water. We saw a chair lift to our left, but it was wayyyy too far away. And we saw a run to our right, but that was also far away and we'd have to cross the creek. Not to mention, it was 3:45 PM, the lifts and the mountain closes at 4:30 and that's just about the time it gets dark out too. NOT GOOD.
We could've gotten arrested or a huge fine, but the ski patrol was very generous and saved our butts from some tickets and only ended up rackin' up a little bar tab at VENDETTA'S (a local ski patrol hang out). The end of the night turned into history......
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Airport chillin'...
I’ve slacked, yet again. I’ve been busy, have had a life? It’s Christmas time. I think that’s how everyone feels. I’ll spare you the details. Well it’s been a good two weeks since my last blog. I’ve explored a few secret spots of Southern California – some being:
• Secret way to get to Black’s Beach in La Jolla: sketchy trails in the middle of canyons and big houses to make my way down to the beach [balancing over one piece of plywood from canyon to canyon, crawling down in between tiny ridges and seeing a beautiful out of the ordinary view of the beach at sunset and listening to the dolphins talk]
• 710 in Pacific Beach: Friday Night Trivia with the girls has become a favorite of mine.
• Ramona, CA – Ramona Waterfall Hike: has hit the #1 hike I’ve done thus far. My first view was dessert. Complete dessert. I was a little nervous on how I was going to find a waterfall in the dessert-like scenery? Well as we kept walking, we ended up being on the top of a few mountains and canyons and looking down onto long valleys full of fall colors – red, yellow, and orange trees. There were beautiful rocks and rugged terrain all over. As we made our way down to the valley, we heard water. I’m not going to lie---we got lost. Well, we didn’t get lost. We just…umm…took the path on the left rather than the path in the middle, which led us an hour and a half out of our way. We found a fun little fire spot and decided to go a little deeper off the trail & we found water, LOUD water. As we went through some long, tall grass, we found that we were at the TOP of the waterfall – literally the top. We were standing right where the water was trickling down. We made our way down to the bottom, which led to a few battle bounds for me but we made it! We saw 3 guys rock climbing which was soooooooo flippin’ cool. Needless to say there was a cliff high enough and water (kinda—meaning 6 feet) deep enough to jump off of it, so we did.
As of right now, I’m on my journey home – with a pit stop in VAIL, CO to hit some double black diamonds and sip hot chocolate with good company before venturing back home to WiscO ☺
-::-::-::-Brain detOuR. I got side tracked and found some OLD OLD OLD pictures on my computer….they brought back soooo many awesome memories. From high school dances, Mr. BPH, Graduation, random nights during senior year (including Mike Englebert getting the worst wedgie EVERRRR---courtesy of me, pictures of when my bedroom walls were still
bright yellow and blue, when Jack was not even 1 year old yet, all the fun Soccer/Cross Country team dinners and meets and times with family on Christmas Eve with all of the girl cousins...me getting mad when Krista got the Barbie I wanted hahaha) I have some kick butt friends and family and am sooo thankful for them. I was all fine until I stumbled upon one of Dootsie and I from my graduation - that made me ball like a little baby in the airport. Looking back at how cute and little she was and how grown up she is now, made me cry!!! Dang it! Okay – enough airport sobbing.
This is the point where I’m signing off…and am going to jam to some badass tunes to get me pumped for the slopes of Vail. Waiting for Drew Drew, Amy, Wes, JJ, Tris & Fish to get me outta this small pit of memories---gunna be a rockin’ time!!!
• 710 in Pacific Beach: Friday Night Trivia with the girls has become a favorite of mine.
• Ramona, CA – Ramona Waterfall Hike: has hit the #1 hike I’ve done thus far. My first view was dessert. Complete dessert. I was a little nervous on how I was going to find a waterfall in the dessert-like scenery? Well as we kept walking, we ended up being on the top of a few mountains and canyons and looking down onto long valleys full of fall colors – red, yellow, and orange trees. There were beautiful rocks and rugged terrain all over. As we made our way down to the valley, we heard water. I’m not going to lie---we got lost. Well, we didn’t get lost. We just…umm…took the path on the left rather than the path in the middle, which led us an hour and a half out of our way. We found a fun little fire spot and decided to go a little deeper off the trail & we found water, LOUD water. As we went through some long, tall grass, we found that we were at the TOP of the waterfall – literally the top. We were standing right where the water was trickling down. We made our way down to the bottom, which led to a few battle bounds for me but we made it! We saw 3 guys rock climbing which was soooooooo flippin’ cool. Needless to say there was a cliff high enough and water (kinda—meaning 6 feet) deep enough to jump off of it, so we did. 
As of right now, I’m on my journey home – with a pit stop in VAIL, CO to hit some double black diamonds and sip hot chocolate with good company before venturing back home to WiscO ☺
-::-::-::-Brain detOuR. I got side tracked and found some OLD OLD OLD pictures on my computer….they brought back soooo many awesome memories. From high school dances, Mr. BPH, Graduation, random nights during senior year (including Mike Englebert getting the worst wedgie EVERRRR---courtesy of me, pictures of when my bedroom walls were still
bright yellow and blue, when Jack was not even 1 year old yet, all the fun Soccer/Cross Country team dinners and meets and times with family on Christmas Eve with all of the girl cousins...me getting mad when Krista got the Barbie I wanted hahaha) I have some kick butt friends and family and am sooo thankful for them. I was all fine until I stumbled upon one of Dootsie and I from my graduation - that made me ball like a little baby in the airport. Looking back at how cute and little she was and how grown up she is now, made me cry!!! Dang it! Okay – enough airport sobbing.
Monday, November 29, 2010
OUT-OF-BODY-SURREAL-EXPERIENCE {part TWO of ::2 Blogs:: 1 day--a little late, sorryyy!}
Saturday. November. 27. 2010
I experience the most surreal-out-of-body-not-even-scary-experience.
........ skydiving.
Yep, I dropped Drew off at the San Diego Airport and decided I wanted to accomplish Skydiving on my Saturday afternoon. I hit up my friend Looney, said "Let's go Skydiving" and he said, "Okay". Well..that wasn't hard :) [didn't need to pull an arm and leg for that! hehe.] I drove down to the Chula Vista drop zone where SKYDIVE SAN DIEGO is located, "signed my life away" and prepared for a 13,000 feet plane dive.
I saw one of my friends jumping and he said he could be my tandem partner. He's on his 1,100th-some-jump & taught me the ropes of skydiving. Decked out in my under armour capris, five fingers and 1/4 zip-up, I strapped up in my harness and ran out to the plane. I was told to put my goggles on when the plane door opened and to just rock out the plane. It was crazy---I wasn't even scared. It didn't even occur to me that I was jumping 13,000 feet with no control and praying the wind would take me the right direction.
A front and back rock out of the plane && we were off. We did a few summer sault flips out of the plane (which was FREAKIN' BOMB!!!!!) and then just free fell. I had to hold my harnest by my shoulders until Isaiah tapped me on the shoulder to flee my hands like I was flying. Before jumping out of the plane he said, "make sure you breathe out of your teeth because otherwise you'll have 120mph wind shooting into your lungs"...so that's what I concentrated on when I was falling---BREATHING correctly. haha. My friend Justin fell 4 seconds after us and when I looked straight ahead he was 5-10 feet in front of me....needless to say, when Isaiah and I pulled our parachute I realized I had a massive amount of drool alllllllllllllllll over my face. haha---yep, Justin definately saw that. New nickname--drool face? how embarressing.lol Once the parachute was released, Isaiah let me guide it. He said, "grab onto these two handles and pull one of them really really hard"---so I did. And we got to spin in spirals down in the sky.
It happened so quickly but it was so out-of-body-and-AWESOME. This was certainly the #1 rush-not-sure-what-to-think-and-i-doubt-anything-can-beat-this-feeling experience that I've ever had. I want to go again!!! It was THE COOLEST THING EVER.
Be random. Do something out of your element. And LOVE IT.
I experience the most surreal-out-of-body-not-even-scary-experience.
........ skydiving.
Yep, I dropped Drew off at the San Diego Airport and decided I wanted to accomplish Skydiving on my Saturday afternoon. I hit up my friend Looney, said "Let's go Skydiving" and he said, "Okay". Well..that wasn't hard :) [didn't need to pull an arm and leg for that! hehe.] I drove down to the Chula Vista drop zone where SKYDIVE SAN DIEGO is located, "signed my life away" and prepared for a 13,000 feet plane dive.
I saw one of my friends jumping and he said he could be my tandem partner. He's on his 1,100th-some-jump & taught me the ropes of skydiving. Decked out in my under armour capris, five fingers and 1/4 zip-up, I strapped up in my harness and ran out to the plane. I was told to put my goggles on when the plane door opened and to just rock out the plane. It was crazy---I wasn't even scared. It didn't even occur to me that I was jumping 13,000 feet with no control and praying the wind would take me the right direction.A front and back rock out of the plane && we were off. We did a few summer sault flips out of the plane (which was FREAKIN' BOMB!!!!!) and then just free fell. I had to hold my harnest by my shoulders until Isaiah tapped me on the shoulder to flee my hands like I was flying. Before jumping out of the plane he said, "make sure you breathe out of your teeth because otherwise you'll have 120mph wind shooting into your lungs"...so that's what I concentrated on when I was falling---BREATHING correctly. haha. My friend Justin fell 4 seconds after us and when I looked straight ahead he was 5-10 feet in front of me....needless to say, when Isaiah and I pulled our parachute I realized I had a massive amount of drool alllllllllllllllll over my face. haha---yep, Justin definately saw that. New nickname--drool face? how embarressing.lol Once the parachute was released, Isaiah let me guide it. He said, "grab onto these two handles and pull one of them really really hard"---so I did. And we got to spin in spirals down in the sky.
It happened so quickly but it was so out-of-body-and-AWESOME. This was certainly the #1 rush-not-sure-what-to-think-and-i-doubt-anything-can-beat-this-feeling experience that I've ever had. I want to go again!!! It was THE COOLEST THING EVER.Be random. Do something out of your element. And LOVE IT.
Saturday, November 27, 2010
::2 blogs:: 1 day. {PART one}
Blog numero uno.
So---I had a surprise visitor this weekend. Yep, Drew bought a plane ticket on Sunday (the 21st) and flew to California to be with me on Thanksgiving Wednesday night through today (Saturday). Crazy mystery visitor :) Needless to say, we had a blast!!!
Wednesday night---I picked him up from the airport around 10:30 PM && decided to take him down town San Diego to see all the crazy people, BUMS on Sixteen St & to find a cool place to eat that was still serving food this late. We ended up finding our way to the GAS LAMP DISTRICT [which, conveniently enough was a place I sooner or later wanted to stumble upon]. We parked the G6 on the corner of J street and 4th Ave and happened to find a cute little pizza joint that had a total of 2 tables. They were small, the door was open and it was a late-night-cozy(kinda)-place to grab a slice of pizza. Afterwards, as we walked out---some older man was outside the pizza joint playing his Boombox (yes---you saw what I wrote...BOOM BOX) & Journey was his choice of the night. haha.
thursday was turkey day. We woke up early and met a few of my girlfriends to run the 5K turkey trot in Balboa Park {which may i add--was goorrrrrrrgeous!!!!} We landed a time of 24 minutes or something like that and as we were walking to the tents to grab some after-race-bagels-oranges-bananas-water...a rabbit...yep, A FLIPPIN' RABBIT...smoked my leg!!!! It was sooo funny---we almost peed our pants we were laughing and bending over so hard! After that little catostrophe, we went home and made mashed potatoes for our thanksgiving feast we were headed to. We drove over to my friend, Noah's, house where there was a good 15 of us there---we all catered our own dishes and had a feast of over 9 states different dishes. It was the cooooooooolest thing and quite the thanksgiving!!! Once feasting was over, Drew and I went to the beach--to watch the sunset. Crazy--I got to lay on the beach in an oversized sweatshirt with leggings on and watch the sunset ON THANKSGIVING DAY!!! {{certainly, was not in Wisco!}} After getting a little chilled, the PB Ale House firepit called our name. A cocktail or two there, some really awesome conversation and meeting another couple was the best way to cap off a thanksgiving away from our family. The later night consisted of some Pacific Beach fun and then our heads rested on the pillows :)
friday---ohhh friday. A sleep-in-no-alarm-clock morning was exactly what we needed. I took him down to the beautiful island of Coronado..gosh, it's beautiful down there. We walked the beach, got lost in Hotel Del Coronado, saw ice skating by the sea occur & headed back towards La Jolla to hike Black's Beach with one of my friends. We parked near the para gliding area, hiked down to Black's Beach [which might i add, is a nude beach. ha]. Once we got down there, we found the cliffs we were about to climb and tore into them.
this morning---SATURDAY. An early wake up, thanks to Drew and his Wisconsin time zone still...we woke up at 7:00 AM. The morning consisted of Honey's---for Pumpkin Pancakes!, a walk on Moonlight Beach in Encinitas and a drive up the 101 to see Oceanside Pier and work our way back down towards Carlsbad, Encinitas, Cardiff, Solana Beach and Del Mar. The coast was breathtaking this morning and the water was pure glass. Surfers paddled their way along the waves, swimmers in wetsuits climbed out of the water and the sun was at a perfect temperature to juuust keep us warm enough. After taking in the beauty of San Diego, I had to drop Mr. Drew Drew off at the airport---I have a hinch, he'll be back sooner than later :)
So---I had a surprise visitor this weekend. Yep, Drew bought a plane ticket on Sunday (the 21st) and flew to California to be with me on Thanksgiving Wednesday night through today (Saturday). Crazy mystery visitor :) Needless to say, we had a blast!!!
Wednesday night---I picked him up from the airport around 10:30 PM && decided to take him down town San Diego to see all the crazy people, BUMS on Sixteen St & to find a cool place to eat that was still serving food this late. We ended up finding our way to the GAS LAMP DISTRICT [which, conveniently enough was a place I sooner or later wanted to stumble upon]. We parked the G6 on the corner of J street and 4th Ave and happened to find a cute little pizza joint that had a total of 2 tables. They were small, the door was open and it was a late-night-cozy(kinda)-place to grab a slice of pizza. Afterwards, as we walked out---some older man was outside the pizza joint playing his Boombox (yes---you saw what I wrote...BOOM BOX) & Journey was his choice of the night. haha.
thursday was turkey day. We woke up early and met a few of my girlfriends to run the 5K turkey trot in Balboa Park {which may i add--was goorrrrrrrgeous!!!!} We landed a time of 24 minutes or something like that and as we were walking to the tents to grab some after-race-bagels-oranges-bananas-water...a rabbit...yep, A FLIPPIN' RABBIT...smoked my leg!!!! It was sooo funny---we almost peed our pants we were laughing and bending over so hard! After that little catostrophe, we went home and made mashed potatoes for our thanksgiving feast we were headed to. We drove over to my friend, Noah's, house where there was a good 15 of us there---we all catered our own dishes and had a feast of over 9 states different dishes. It was the cooooooooolest thing and quite the thanksgiving!!! Once feasting was over, Drew and I went to the beach--to watch the sunset. Crazy--I got to lay on the beach in an oversized sweatshirt with leggings on and watch the sunset ON THANKSGIVING DAY!!! {{certainly, was not in Wisco!}} After getting a little chilled, the PB Ale House firepit called our name. A cocktail or two there, some really awesome conversation and meeting another couple was the best way to cap off a thanksgiving away from our family. The later night consisted of some Pacific Beach fun and then our heads rested on the pillows :)
this morning---SATURDAY. An early wake up, thanks to Drew and his Wisconsin time zone still...we woke up at 7:00 AM. The morning consisted of Honey's---for Pumpkin Pancakes!, a walk on Moonlight Beach in Encinitas and a drive up the 101 to see Oceanside Pier and work our way back down towards Carlsbad, Encinitas, Cardiff, Solana Beach and Del Mar. The coast was breathtaking this morning and the water was pure glass. Surfers paddled their way along the waves, swimmers in wetsuits climbed out of the water and the sun was at a perfect temperature to juuust keep us warm enough. After taking in the beauty of San Diego, I had to drop Mr. Drew Drew off at the airport---I have a hinch, he'll be back sooner than later :)
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